1Gbps uncapped fibre-to-the-home from 123NET for R799

Very nice!!!!

But...

Bogatzevski explained that all their plans come with uncapped data – the only limits are for the international bandwidth speeds.

“We will not limit the speed to any South African IP network,” said Bogatzevski. “Subscribers will be able to use the maximum possible bandwidth [1Gbps] that the remote site can provide.”
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That R300pm option is actually just to pay off the R3600 installation and hardware costs over the first 12 months ... thereafter it becomes R0.00. As in you can pay R3600 upfront for 5mbps/1mbps uncapped FTTH for life?

As per their website at least.

Although their site looks dodge. They claim to weave the (lowered) installation costs on their paid-for subscription plans with a 1 year commitment.
 
It's a rather drab and uninformative press release. But good news for those whom would fall within their scope of rollout.

Now if only an isp would take the same initiative in Cape Town with all of the fibre DFA has laying around. One stop shop to Yzerfontein.
 
I would love for Mybroadband to run a few test of their service first hand before I sign on any dotted line. Please send a journalist to their premises run a few speedtest locally using Mybroadband speedtest. Test FTP speeds. Download UBUNTU FROM mirror.ac.za and
 
OK, what McD highlighted in his earlier quote, along with what I'm quoting below has me rethinking them with scepticism. Are they just hosting content locally and streaming it to you over their glorified LAN without actually, proper Internet from the rest of the world?

500 times faster Internet claim is based on the current South Africa average for broadband of 2 Mbps download and 512 Kbps upload (ADSL). 1000 Mbps National download/upload cannot be achieved with most South African sites/services due to their currently limited connectivity.
While 123NET fibre is working actively to peer with everyone to provide the highest possible speeds, our Customers are welcome to use the Gigabit (1000 Mbps) bandwidth to all our Local content - hosted sites, email, multimedia, movies, music, games etc.
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RichardG said:
I would love for Mybroadband to run a few test of their service first hand before I sign on any dotted line. Please send a journalist to their premises run a few speedtest locally using Mybroadband speedtest. Test FTP speeds. Download UBUNTU FROM mirror.ac.za and
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I was thinking the same thing earlier.
These press releases are all good and well. :rolleyes:
But we need first hand experience on this.
We need the Carte Blanche, Debra Patta like on the ground reporting of this product.

Hell even some customer experiences from people whom are Live on their current products would be nice.
 
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Shake&Bake said:
I was thinking the same thing earlier.
These press releases are all good and well. :roll:
But we need first hand experience on this.
We need the Carte Blanche, Debra Patta like on the ground reporting of this product.

Hell even some customer experiences from people whom are Live on their current products would be nice.
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Nice having press releases and all but somebody has to test the service first hand to make sure it is operational and legit. Reminds me of the sim card deal everybody was purchasing three days later they canned it..

How is it possible to offer such rates at such an affordable price. I want to see screen shots / speedtest reports locally and internationally... download speeds locally then I will believe it's legit until such time this happen I will call it another scam.
 
This reminds me of DOTCO - The "All You Can Eat" Internet Company from a decade ago.

They also wanted to bring change to our (still) hugely overpriced Internet connectivity fees, but then Telkom managed to kill them off in the end.

http://unreal.co.za/forums/showthread.php?t=1507

Sincerely hope these guys are successful, as we need to catch up with the rest of the world.
 
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Sounds like it is a sweet deal... The international bandwidth part is a bit dodge... I hope they do not throttle your international bandwidth from excessive usage.

Are there companies planning FTTH plans / rollouts in the Eastern Cape? I know DFA was laying cables all over East London back in 2012.
 
People should really stop reading into things that aren't said. The international is limited. Probably so they can get people on the higher packages. Local isn't and will work as fast as the networks can handle. It isn't limited to a service on their network but their own servers would probably be almost as fast as the connection and unmatched.

If this wasn't feasible there would be no Vumatel either. I understand people are skeptical when it comes to South Africa but here it isn't warranted. The business model is working already so they don't have to prove themselves. The days of Dotco is also way past. It tried something nobody else was doing that wasn't feasible at the time but nowadays everyone else is offering way better than what they did.
 
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